外国选篇教学是语文课堂教学的重要部分。相较于其它语文选篇，外国选篇能为学生传递更为丰富的知识和信息。但由于对语文教材中的外国选篇不很重视，当前的语文教学在一定程度上忽视了这些外国选篇的作用和价值。因此，通过了解把握现今语文教材中外国选篇的编选情况，可以使我们更好地认识外国选篇的教育教学功能，以便最大程度地实现高中语文的教学目标。2003年教育部颁布了《普通高中语文课程标准(实验)》，据此编写的教科书——《普通高中课程标准实验教科书（必修）》备受关注。其中，外国选篇部分与以往语文教材有较大的差异。而在此前，同是人民教育出版社出版的语文教材，即根据2000年颁布的《全日制普通高级中学语文教学大纲(试验修订版)》编写的《全日制普通高级中学教科书(必修)》，在全国范围内也具有颇大的影响力。为了更好地研究高中语文教材中外国选篇的编选情况，本文将以上述两版语文教材为例，通过比较的方式来探讨各自的优点和不足。首先，将依据上述两个标准中对外国选篇的要求，分析两版教材在教学内容等方面的变化，进而展开对两版教材中选篇构成的比较，主要包括编排体例、数量和所占比重、题材内容、体裁分布状况、时空分布状况、入选作者和译者、选篇的承继和变化等方面。之后，再细化到选篇的内部构成，主要就两版教材都选入的外国选篇即《我有一个梦想》《在马克思墓前的讲话》《装在套子里的人》《宇宙的未来》四篇，从选文、知识、助读、作业四个方面比较分析其异同。其次，在梳理分析的基础上对两版教材进行评价，指出它们各自的优点和有待商榷的地方，以期为教材选篇的编选者提供研判信息。最后，提出大纲版和课标版语文教材的使用意见，主要就现行的教材即《普通高中课程标准实验教科书（必修）》，提出如何更好地编选和使用外国选篇方面的建议。

The selected texts from foreign literatures carry more information than other texts as an important part in current Chinese textbooks and classes. They abound the Chinese class with customaries and cultures of other nations and races with their stylistic distinctiveness of language and composing technology. For the reason of unfamiliarity or disrespects, however, these texts tend to be ignored in the teaching progresses of current Chinese curriculums. To make best use of these texts, the editorial condition must be studied. The publishment Experimental high school curriculum standards of textbooks (Compulsory)edition based on Ordinary high school language curriculum standard ( Experiment ) promulgated by the Education Department in 2000 attracts a lot of attention in which the selected texts from foreign literatures vary vastly from the former ones. Just 3years ago, the Full-time regular senior high school textbooks (compulsory) from People’s Education Press based on Full-time regular senior high school language syllabus (test revision) which was published in 2000 was still in power. This thesis studies the selecting and editing conditions based on the two editions of textbooks by comparison.First of all, the study contrasts the two editions with each other and analyzes the variances in teaching contents and other aspects based on the upper two standards for texts selected from foreign literatures. Then the study stretch out to the comparison to the construction of the two editions, mainly in the system of edition, quantity and proportion, contents, genre distribution, distributions of space and time，authors and translators, and consistency and variance. In the next part, the study concentrates on the inner construction of the selected texts. It analyzes the sameness and differences of the texts selected in both editions, which are I Have A Dream, The Speech in Front of Max’s Tomb, Man in the Case and The Future of Universe, from aspects of selection, knowledge, cognition, and homework. Further more, the evaluation of the two editions tells their advantages as well as problems respectively, providing information to the editors. At last, suggestions in application will be proposed focus on the current text book of Experimental high school curriculum standards of textbooks ( Compulsory).